Soils and Land Capability of the Lexton Region

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This report on ' Soils and Land Capability of the Lexton Region' was prepared by L.A. Sullivan of Ballarat University in 1991. It was commissioned by the Lexton Landcare Group in order to provide information about the soils and land capability in the Landcare Group area at a scale suitable for interpretation at a regional level. The purpose of the inventory was to enable more effective planning of revegetation and soil improvement programmes as part of the Lexton Landcare Rehabilitation Strategy Project.

The work of Schoknecht (1988) was used as the major basis for this study. Additional work was undertaken to cover areas not surveyed as part of Schoknecht's report (approximately 50% of the study area); allow for readjustment of the boundaries of each map unit at the base map scale of 1:25 000; provide additional soil data for each map unit; and to modify some of Schoknecht's map units to provide greater precision.

		Front Page & Table of Contents (PDF 335KB)	Soils and Land Capability of the Lexton Region - Map (PDF 1.7MB)
		Introduction (PDF198KB)
		Soils (PDF145KB) Classifcation of the Soil Description of the Major Soil Group
		Land Degradation (PDF 80KB)
		Forms of Degradation (PDF80KB) Salinity Sheet erosion Gully erosion Streambank erosion Wind erosion Soil compaction Slope failure Soil acidification
		Land Capability Assessment (PDF134KB)
		Map Units
		Appendices (PDF 85KB)
		Bibliography (PDF 80KB)